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Shedeur Sanders recognized the criticisms he faced while playing in Jackson State and Colorado before his decision to go and enter the NFL draft and theorized why he takes a lot of heat.
The focus was very hot last month when it fell to the fifth round of the draft after being projected to be taken as high as number 2. The Cleveland Browns finally risked with him in selection No. 144.
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May 10, 2025; Berea, Oh: the Cleveland Browns Campo Marshal, Shedeur Sanders (12), talks to a coach during the rookie mini -rookie in crosscountry mortgage campus. (Ken Blaze-Imagn images)
He told Cleveland.com that he believes that a lot of hatred aimed at him is based on his father, Deion Sanders.
“They don’t care about other people’s opinion,” Sanders said about the younger generation while visiting a local high school. “They are based on yours: 99% of hatred (aimed at him) is towards Pops. And then I am only his son. But (the children) did not grow at a time when they saw him play. It is only the previous generation what he does to me instead of the young people.
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The Cleveland Browns Campo Marshal Sanders, front, leaves the field after the NFL football team in Berea, Ohio, Ohio, on Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogocki)
“So, that’s why I say that I like to go (to schools) in person and really know them, and any questions they have, I say: ‘Just ask me the question you want. Choose any question. Without filter, with nothing.’ That is what they say.
Sanders can silence some of the critics who have already ruled out.
He enters a field marshal room full of people with veterans Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett, as well as someone from his own rookie class in Dillon Gabriel.
He signed his rookie contract earlier for the week. All eyes will be on him and his three teammates during low season training.
